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Palm Beach County Fire Rescue reports rise in EMS calls, introduces whole-blood protocol and flags battery fires
Summary
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue told Lake Clarke Shores officials the department handled mostly medical calls last year, is carrying whole blood on some units for trauma care, and warned battery and EV fires are increasingly difficult to extinguish.
District Chief (presenting) Martinez gave the council an annual report on March 11 summarizing Palm Beach County Fire Rescue operations that serve the town.
Martinez said the department ran about 57,000 calls countywide last year and that about 80% of calls in the Lake Clarke Shores response area were medical in nature. He described the department’s emphasis on advanced life support, specialty units such as tenders and brush trucks, dive teams, and hazardous-materials and…
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